|| 12 || To revenge and perturbation

EVIE POV

"Enid! Wednesday" I catch my breath as we walk up to them

"Evie? Ajax?? What are you guys doing here?" Enid moves closer to the bars

"Bianca's in trouble. Have you guys heard of Gideon Sterling?" Ajax holds up his phone

"I can't believe Bianca had a whole crime drama going on, and none of us knew about it!

"Her moms missing. I feel like their being held hostage by Principal Dort."

"Yeah, Evie's got this crazy theory about his Dad and Dort being part of-"

"Yeah, but we still need evidence."

Wednesday's eyebrow twitched, which means she's got a plan. "Tell your roommate I've got a task for her." she goes to leave the room,

"Wednesday!" I run up to her, I know she has a plan but just to be sure, I give her my pendant that I turned into a necklace "Here. Bianca seemed very persuasive in me taking it off, I just thought maybe it could block siren sounds."

She nodded

I Immediately ran to Ophelia Hall, to my room just to be surprised by a white box in front of the door, I crouched down, taking the yellow sticky note off the box.

"For, Eve

-Enjoy ;)) PS. Leave the financials to me"

I scoffed, taking the box inside with me, and opening it. Inside was a black and purple dress, with matching gloves, and a mask

(This is just my representation on what it looks like, but imagine it however you want and I also forgot to add a hoopskirt)

"You have such a sweet dad"

"OH- Agnes."

"My Dad didn't even leave a note" she says taking the sticky note off my finger

I looked at the satin green dress on the ground, worth my whole allowance for the year.

"Right uhm" I turn to look at her but get jump scared once again "Holy-" for some reason that I'd rather not ask, my roommate had turned herself into Wednesday's doppelganger "how did you get that?"

"I raided her closet."

Besides having impeccable stalker material, she could also steal. "Um- Wednesday's at the Fencing ground. Gather everything Bianca says before she sirens Wednesday."

Agnes grins in joy, skipping to the door

"Hey Agnes, please tell me you have no plan wearing that to the gala."

Agnes sighs "Well see."

"Green suits you more." I wouldn't put a beautiful dress to waste.

She doesn't say a word, and exits the room. I put on the dress, and all the all the accessories and to no surprise, it fits perfectly. I just wish the price didn't bother me so much.

I made my way to the venue, seeing Eugene sitting near the gorgon statue, "Its a shame to be alone in this lovely night."

Eugene turns to me, pushing his glasses into place and adjusting his vision. "Evie?"

I took off the mask "Duh." as I sat next to him

"I almost didn't recognize you."

"Why do I look like a clown?"

"Pugsley does. Literally." We look at Pugsley, going inside with his family, looking more miserable, and invisible like ever. Eugene turns his attention back at me while I kept staring "your more like a caterpillar that had turned themselves into a butterfly- Your starting to look like these moths."

"Do I?" I turn back to him

His eyes dart to Pugsley then to me

"Ever since that Day at Camp Jericho, your attention, is diverted to Pugsley."

"Wha-"

"I mean yes, I get that you promised Wednesday you'll look after him, but even before that, you've already kept an eye on him. That day- at the founders Pyre, I tried to look for you, but you disappeared"

"I did?" deny until it feels natural

"Pugsley ran away didn't he? And you followed him into the woods."

"I needed to-"

"Even then, you didn't say anything in your blog. You saw him wake Isaac Night, but when you wrote your insult to him, it didn't say anything about the Zombie."

"Its- yeah its my fault I should've said it sooner."

Eugene's voice softened, "I'm not talking about what you wrote, Evie. I'm talking about why."

My stomach knotted. "Why what?"

"Why you didn't write about him the way you write about everyone else." His eyes held mine, "You could've buried him. Exposed him. Instead, you... protected him."

"What? No I didnt-"

"I've read your writing, way too many times. Your insults, were very much insults. But his in particular, it seemed like you were holding back- or maybe you weren't and that was all you wanted to say."

I scoffed even though, my heart was pounding

"Evie... is it just about protecting him?"

I blinked "What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean."

"You're making it sound like-"

"—like you like him?" Eugene finished, blunt as ever.

I nearly choked on air. "What? No— I— He's Pugsley!"

Eugene raised a brow. "That's not a denial."

I groaned, dragging a hand down my face. "Why is this important? I mean aren't we supposed to see if Isaac Night shows up?"

"Well, it seems like your keeping watch of somebody else." he said simply, shrugging. "You don't do things without a reason. And I've never seen you bend your rules for anyone—except him."

"I don't like him," I muttered, too defensive for it to sound convincing.

Eugene gave me a look that said everything "Sure you don't."

"I just... don't want him to get himself killed. That's all."

"Mhm. Right." Eugene wiggled his eyebrows

I rolled my eyes "I'll head inside."

"Protective much?"

"Do you want me to keep watch??"

"No its fine, I got it. Go find your Joker, Harley Quin."

"Oh you're so dead." I muttered under my breath making my way up the stairs, trying my best not to show Eugene a middle finger

"DE-NIAL IS A RIVER IN EGYPT!"

I walked in to the Venue, looking for Pugsley, but instead his sister found me.

"Looking for someone?"

"No-"

She studied me, she definitely knows I'm lying but her face remained unreadable. "You're deflecting."

Just when I thought I was doomed, she goes up to Enid, and I follow after

"Did you find Bianca's mom?" she stopped pacing, and looked at us

"Ajax is with her." I answered

"If we're going to stop Dort, we're going to need more help." Wednesday's eyes dart beside Enid "that includes you, Agnes. I know you're still here."

Agnes shows herself, with the green dress that her dad gave her. I guess Enid knocked some sense into her.

Wednesday looked her up and down "Finally some originality."

"I don't care what you think about me anymore." Agnes says, more confident than before'

"Good."

Wednesday tells us the plan. Enid and Agnes go up the stage to perform as a distraction. Which was absolutely amazing.

"Im glad she found herself, I guess you don't have a gofer anymore?"

"I already have one." she turned to me giving back my pendant "Stick to the plan."

I nod, giving her a slight smile, sure being her personal assistant is tiring, but better than wondering what the hell she's up to.

"Oh. and about Pugsley" My eyes widen, almost crushing the pendant in my hand, caught off guard, she stepped closer, her tone calm but it pierced through me. "My brother is not a charity case. If you're going to involve yourself with him, be clear about your intentions. He deserves honesty, not pity."

I swallowed "Its not pity."

"Then what is it?" Wednesday let the silence linger before turning her gaze back toward the crowd. "If you hurt him, Evie, I'll know."

And then she walked away, like she didn't just tell me that there's a dug up grave reserved for me. The plan went on smoothly, Bianca went up the stage to siren Dort into telling everyone about what really went on.

I was satisfied, but, I couldn't help but feel it wasn't enough justice for my dad and especially my mom.

Just then Dort grabbed Bianca and took her hostage "I'm walking out of here! or the sirens toast!!"

Shit. Ajax and I immediately went up the stage to try and stop Dort, He lit the chandelier on fire, as it was about to fall down, I gathered up all my energy to try and hold it up. "Ajax! Do something!"

"Hey Dort!" Ajax took off his beanie, Dort turned into stone and just as I couldn't hold it anymore

"Incoming!!"

BOOM

crack

I coughed a few times as the dust began to move away, revealing a mess. Ajax pulled me up "You okay?"

"Wow...Did I...?"

"Kill him? I- yeah." He looked at me with a small 'yeah you definitely did kill him' smile

We talked to a few police officers, and I thought I needed to pull out the my dad is a lawyer card but It was ruled out as self-defense and Bianca thanked us for it.

Not gonna lie, that was satisfying. I guess that's counted as my moms revenge for him, death is the most fitting karma.

"Wednesday! Isaac's here!" Eugene ran to her, the moth's nowhere to be seen

"Where?" she asked

"The Nevermore Graveyard"

I looked around then realized. "Pugsley's Missing!!"

A/N: Last Chapter on Wednesday (hopefully!) :))